This
is me, Mark Austin, or rather it is an adulterated passport picture
of me created by suspected pedophile Bert
Vierstra, nasty Bali Villas Real Estate fraud of Lovina. In
his typically pubescent manner he called it "Pig Nose Austin,
King of the Minho Valley" (our house overlooks the Minho
River Valley in Portugal). Funny? Well, to the dirt expatriate
community of Indonesia whose collective IQ is lower than my hat
size, it is hilarious. Actually, in spite of their worst wishes,
my wife and I did get a laugh out of it and sent it to family
and friends. But the really nasty thing about this photo is how
they got it; from the corrupt mafia police of Bali. You see the
filthy, disgusting, lazy, inept, bent, mafia street dogs in uniform
(Bali's police) unlawfully gave my passport scan to an aggrieved
business competitor of mine (John
M. Daniels of Bali
Discovery Tours), who in turn has been circulating it around
with other sad, demented expats in Bali, including alleged child
loving Vierstra to abuse on the Internet as they wish.

Funny? OK, have a really good laugh, now understand this; When
you book into your hotel next in Bali and they take a copy of
your passport, they will provide it to the world's most corrupt
police. So now you know the police think nothing of sharing your
passport information with criminals. Your hotel in Bali also gets
your credit card information. Have you even been the victim of
credit card fraud (identity theft) after going to Bali? I have
and now I know where the fraudsters got my card details and passport
information from; the Balinese police. Now is it funny?
My above passport scan came from the Balinese police and has been
circulated around the internet by the criminal expatriate community
of Bali, and has been used by credit card fraudsters to take money
from one of my credit card accounts. The Balinese police are the
true criminals of Bali.

My name is Mark Austin, I love Bali and the Balinese. I have
come to the conclusion anyone who genuinely loves Bali and has
their eyes open will hate Indonesia. So if you claim to love Bali,
please read my story and also what I have since learnt about Indonesia's
unlawful existence and their rule of terror and crime over the
Balinese.

Although what I publish here means I can not easily (safely)
go back to Bali, I really do not want to all the time it is part
of the hate state of Indonesia. I would rather do my bit here
to try and help, yes help the Balinese rid themselves of the cancer
that afflicts them; even if that means I give up my "right"
to go and see Bali, my friends and family there. I owe a lot to
the Balinese after all, it was because of Bali I got into the
internet business generally from which I have done so well. If
it were not for Bali, I would not have the wonderful family or
the very high standard of living we now do. That is not a boast
for the western reader of this site, but I do hope our success
through hard honest work sticks in the throats of the thieves
of Indonesia who would not know honesty unless they choked on
it.

The thing I would like to convey to Indonesia particularly is
about our main residence, or rather the area (Northern Portugal).
We have a practically zero crime rate, everyone is genuinely friendly
(their smiles do not turn into frowns once you look away) and
people are pretty much equal here no matter how much they earn;
certainly everyone has a very good life style. Unlike Indonesia,
hate through jealousy simply does not exist; people here are happy
for you if you do well. When I get stopped at police check points
they are courteous to the extent of being warm, highly professional,
understanding and never demand money like all the police I have
ever had the misfortune to meet in Indonesia do routinely. Once
when my wife and I went to Spain (an easy border crossing) to
go shopping, we came back and there was a Spanish check point,
we got stopped and we both had forgotten our passports. Because
I had my EU driving license though I was allowed to drive home
15 minutes into Portugal and return with our passports. We were
not fined or anything despite the fact we had technically broken
the law; the police here in Spain and Portugal are civil servants
you see, not thieves in uniforms despised by the entire population
(except those in league with them) as they are in Indonesia. God
bless the EU. I just pray for the Balinese that they one day can
have this quality of life themselves.

I am British and am proud of many aspects of my native country
and history including, ironically, the British police force which
I believe is the finest in the world. Although these days I prefer
to be thought of as a citizen of the European Union not least
because of British foreign policy and the fact I believe the EU
with its human rights courts, de facto cure for past conflicts
and evolving system of natural fair trading counter-balances will
one day be a model for the world; I did say "evolving".
I "love" the EU and the effect it has had on both the
economics and attitudes of its citizens. As you may gather later,
I believe the EU, not the UN is the future for the world if it
keeps expanding or at least as a role model to duplicate elsewhere
if it stays within the confines of Europe, which I doubt and hope
not. I believe the EU has managed to more than begin the journey
down the road of genuine constitutional justice born from a logical
and balanced market orientated union; yes there are some legacies
or flaws still there, but it is getting closer. The UN by comparison
for me is substantially a political dinosaur created by the US
led victors of WW2, and I believe it shows. Like most American
named organizations, I think the "United Nations" is
more about its US political aspirational PR and "Hobson's
Choice" than literal accuracy and worldwide acceptance and
involvement. I believe the reason the EU is much better poised
to offer a solution to the world is that the European Union is
based on trade between partners with member state politics made
to fit, not the political and with it commercial self interest
of individual states. You can read how I believe the then US driven
UN unlawfully committed the Balinese and other islanders to civil
and human rights abuse here: Balinese
History.

My name is Mark Austin, my wife Luh Suci is Balinese, we have
two children Andrew (born August 2002) and Francheska (born October
2005).

By token of the fact I have a Balinese wife you can rightfully
deduce I have a history and connections with Bali above that of
the average tourist. You can read my full Bali
Experiences here, but basically I started a number of Bali
travel related businesses based on 3 premises; Honesty, quality
and being Balinese friendly. Unfortunately in a place so corrupt
as Indonesia where tourism is the country’s third largest
industry and where Bali is the jewel in the crown with much of
it owned by the Indonesian elite [sic] families (Suharto et all),
genuine commercial honesty does not go down too well. As I basically
reported things as they were, some travel businesses (hotels,
etc.) did not like what I reported about them and their less than
ethical practices (e.g. unlawful anti-Balinese building permits,
allowing prostitutes to stay with guests, making death threats,
stealing their impoverished staff’s service charges, etc.)
or that I regarded and reported institutional tourism in Bali
to be very poor value (e.g. how badly certain so called Luxury
Bali Hotels faired value wise against, say, those in Thailand).
This was all done before I found out who really owned what in
Bali and done solely in the best interests of both the traveler
and the Balinese. I actively promoted Bali but not the Bali the
“institution” wanted me to.

After a customer of my travel company found a well known reservations
company / travel agent (Bali
Discovery Tours of Sanur) offering unauthorized room rates
on the Internet which the hotel involved instructed them to remove
after I contacted them (I had a lowest rate guarantee from them),
Bali Discovery’s very nasty owner, an American called John
Millard AKA Jack Daniels started making problems for me (getting
the police to act unlawfully against me) through collusion / corruption.
You can read about the whole nasty story here: Bali
Police, but in essence, after unlawfully being detained, threatened
with a firing squad and having my passport confiscated by the
police, which the British Embassy confirmed as unlawful and intervened
to secure my liberty, instead of capitulating to these crooks
in uniform as the vast majority of people do (normally by paying
unwarranted extorted bribes), I decided to stand up to and ultimately
take legal action against the Balinese police and Jack Daniels.

As a result I have been the subject of several clearly documented
unlawful Balinese police
investigations, which abused both my civil and human rights.
I have concrete evidence the Balinese
police intend, as a “favour” through collusion
/ corruption to Jack
Daniels (Bali), to unlawfully jail me and worse should I ever
return to Bali. I have
documented evidence that Daniels and the Balinese police work
with the local Indonesia mafia “Laksar” which is tied
to Suharto’s Golkar party and seemingly enjoys not just
immunity but also the co-operation of the Indonesian police. The
highly unlawful police “investigations” against me
are generally for the same thing “Criminal Libel”
(for telling the truth) and so called “Spying” (for
reporting on the Internet what I saw: lazy inept police officers
with their backs on the island's security); although they are
unlawful, the police in Indonesia are corrupt, a law to themselves
and therefore effectively above the law. In Indonesia they have
a problem with the unlawful criminalization of civil cases (source:
Indonesian Chamber of Commerce) and the most abused criminal code
is that of “criminal libel”. In Indonesia, it is in
reality illegal to say or write anything bad about anyone with
more money, power or influence than you, even if what you say
is true and in the public’s best interests, unless you first
get that person’s permission to do so! However I was not
in Indonesia when I wrote in the English language the truth about
nasty Daniels and his corrupt police buddies, so it does not come
under Indonesian jurisdiction and the Balinese police have admitted
this but it does not stop them from acting against me of course!

Despite the fact the only investigations against me were for
truthful, well-intentioned statements I have made and which investigations
were unlawful and outside Indonesian jurisdiction, my name was
unlawfully placed on Interpol’s automated watch registry
as a suspected insurgent / terrorist, which I most definitely
am not, so that the Balinese police could be informed of my movements
and whereabouts outside Indonesia. I only found out about this
because the police in Bali are as stupid as they are bent; they
boasted about what they were doing and showed people the Interpol
file on me. Clearly the Balinese police did not need Interpol
to be able to check for my potential arrival into Bali / Indonesia
as the Balinese authorities are able to have Indonesian immigration
watch for wanted people’s names / details as foreigners
arrive at airports, etc. It is therefore abundantly clear the
sole purpose of my being placed on Interpol’s watch list
was to be able to provide that data to Jack Daniels who clearly
intends me physical harm; I believe Daniels intends to have me
murdered. You can read how close I came to this at our former
home in Thailand when Thai gangsters, clearly under contract with
Daniels, came to our former home there and forced us to flee (read
John M. Daniels, Bali).

My name has now been removed from Interpol’s data after
my specialist human rights lawyer in London filed a complaint
under the 1981 Data Protection Convention and an Interpol investigation
is ongoing against the Balinese police authority under Interpol’s
Anti-Corruption mandate which Indonesia is a signatory to. Whether
realistically Interpol will do anything but ask the central police
authority in Jakarta if they acted improperly is unlikely given
the west's need for Indonesian terrorist intelligence. My lawyers
have confirmed to me I have more than enough substantiated evidence
to file a complaint against the Indonesian Government under various
sections of the International Convention on Human Rights but for
one small problem, the Indonesian Government has not ratified
the all important "First Optional Protocol" of the most
important convention which would allow individuals to file complaints
with the UN appointed body. Without it, only inter-state complaints
can be made via the UN i.e. one country complaining about the
failure of another's failure to comply with the obligations set
out in the ICHR.

This means I must file my main complaint with the Indonesian
Department of Justice and Human Rights which, by all accounts,
is a misnomer or perhaps contradiction in terms, run as it is
by a man who compares himself favorably with Hitler (really).
The process can take years or even forever as there is no requirement
upon Indonesia to act within a certain time frame. All I can and
will do is file it, publish it here and the world can sit and
wait with me and by that process judge whether the UN conventions
alone are a farce unless properly controlled or not. Although
I can petition the British Government to make an "inter-state"
complaint with the Indonesian authorities over any delay and /
or eventual unfair rejection of what is a well documented case,
given my lack of confidence of the British Government's motives
in the world as a result of their foreign policies, I am somehow
skeptical they will be all ears. Unfortunately the whitewash mechanism
is already in place in that Indonesia has an Office of Justice
and Human Rights which it can and does claim enforces the terms
of the ICHR, so that foreign governments can tell their aggrieved
human rights abused citizens it is an internal matter between
them and the Indonesian authorities. But file my complaints I
will and hope my trust in perseverance and naming and shaming
one day will bring results.

If you have any doubts that the Indonesians say one thing and
practice another regarding human rights, just do a search for
"Munir Said Thalib", "Aceh Human Rights Abuse",
"East Timor Human Rights Abuse", "West Papua Human
Rights Abuse", etc. on Google. You will hopefully be amazed
at the volume and also disgusted to see the obvious reason why
Indonesia is allowed to get away with it; large western predominantly
mineral, petroleum and defence industry corporations who make
billions of dollars out of Indonesia and whose names appear in
these human rights abuse claims. So I amongst thousands perhaps
millions of others may have to wait until if and when Indonesia
signs up to the substantial, not just PR elements of these conventions.
Although I can of course virtually guarantee if that day ever
comes, mine and everyone else's abuse will suddenly stop the day
before and Indonesia put a condition in stipulating it will not
accept retrospective claims (liability), as so many states before
them have done. Certainly until the day I can hold the Balinese
police accountable for their unlawful acts, I can hardly go back
to Bali safely.

Of course I have other reasons than most for wanting to go to
Bali, but have decided to sacrifice these in order to retain my
rights to freedom of speech and of course liberty. I have been
made perfectly aware both by fellow human rights abuse sufferers
such as Harry Bleckert,
who I have now met (he came to stay with us after getting his
wife out of Indonesia) and who we now count as a family friend,
the corrupt Indonesian police work unlawfully on the basis that
you either capitulate to their illegal acts and extortion, or
you go to a jail from hell, or you have to stay away from Indonesia.
This is why the level of potential corruption and with it civil
and human rights abuse against you increases in direct proportion
to your connections and perceived investment in Bali. Because
I fight back for my legal rights which presently I can not expect
to enforce, I become one of the few known / reported victims.
It is therefore my moral obligation and legal right to accurately
convey to you the nasty facts of Indonesia in the hope my acts
one day will secure justice not just for myself but for all Indonesian
state extortion and abuse victims, especially the Balinese people
I came to love. If you have any doubts that what I say and do
are both accurate and legal, understand that the Indonesian government
could have my web sites removed and / or arrange for me to be
prosecuted within the EU if not.

Since becoming a victim of civil and human rights abuse, I naturally
have found out a lot more about this subject particularly with
relation to Indonesia. Since that time I have become horrified
about how Indonesia was “born” out of hate thanks
to the all too apparent corrupt wishes AKA foreign policies of
the USA, Britain and Australia, plus just how bad corruption plus
civil and human rights abuse in Indonesia is to this day. I am
truly so disgusted with the role the USA and Britain played and
continues to play regarding the murder and suppression of people
friendly to the west, many who supported us during WW2, by people
who are not. All in return for corrupt contracts for their major
corporations, many of whom are very generous with political party
donations. We all recognize the USA and their puppets inflicted
misguided and counter-productive foreign policies on the world
to quell their paranoia of post war global communism, yet many
can not see this now has been replaced with fundamentalist Islamic
terrorist paranoia on top of short term national self-interest
which actually fuels not puts out the problem. Such is my disgust
at and fear of Great Britain and its allies over Indonesia and
other areas of foreign policy, I have no qualm in saying I believe
Blair, Bush, Howard and their cronies should be in jail, not in
public office and I would vote for anyone who says they will put
them behind bars. As for Indonesian leaders, capital punishment
includes the death penalty in Indonesia; I just hope it is put
to good use soon.

Regarding my “Jihad”, I would like to make the point
that I have nothing personally to gain except spiritual satisfaction
and yes, revenge from my efforts but what I am doing costs my
family and I money and happiness in the short term. People have
said to me and about me “Why the hell don’t you just
shut up and pay the police off if that is what it takes? You knew
what Bali was like before you got into it!” Actually, like
most foreigners who have become involved with Bali and become
a target for extortion, etc. by the entirely corrupt authorities
there, I did not know it was like this; which is partly why I
tell the story I do, to let other people know so they can avoid
the same problems. Many people say what the likes of Daniels and
the Balinese police do is the norm, somehow acceptable, an effective
alternative and therefore I am somehow at fault for expecting
better. But what the likes of Daniels and the Balinese police
do is unlawful, so how can what they do be acceptable? Why I do
not shut up and pay the police off if that is what it takes is
because I value liberty, because I would rather die (actually,
die fighting) than ingratiate some piece of human garbage who
paid to get his police uniform so he could extort money from people.
When I die I do not want to look back and see my life flashing
past including images of lying down and being trampled over by
these scum bags. I will not allow some grinning thieving monkey
in uniform to exercise unlawful power over me because some other
piece of human garbage appointed him to do this and another threw
him the banana it takes to set him off. It is not just pride for
for myself but because I want something much better for the Balinese
who will never achieve even basic human and civil rights plus
their economic and cultural aspirations unless something is done
besides ignorance, complicity or capitulation.

Finally, it annoys me that the terms “corruption”,
“human rights” and “civil rights” in relation
to Bali, Indonesia and even elsewhere often invokes the response
from westerners; “There is corruption, etc. everywhere in
the world, you should live in Sydney (or wherever)”. But
I guess I was just as guilty of paying the pain and suffering
of others such "Don’t bother me with what I don’t
want to hear" lip service in the past myself before seeing
the truth. Believe me, the everyday Balinese wish they could enjoy
an environment such as in Sydney (or wherever) where their human,
social, civil and economic rights and aspirations are pretty much
guaranteed, rather than the reverse. OK, having used Sydney in
the above example, that some countries who should know better
have extremely corrupt police forces by western standards, see:
Victoria
(Australia) Police. But having too many bent cops ready to
tip off villains of a raid is wholly different to where the entire
police force is so bent they are in every respect the villains.

The Balinese are not just there to provide western tourists with
a subservient smiling servant fix; they are human beings like
the rest of us and deserve a better future. As I will justify
later; Give Bali a chance, death to the unlawful hate state of
the Republic of Indonesia.